The tactics of the federal force, too, have grown more aggressive and indiscriminate. Armed officers have appeared at schools, daycares, churches and mosques. Masked agents are stopping residents at traffic lights, or on their walk to the grocery store, demanding – at gunpoint – that they prove their citizenship.
The agents are targeting not only undocumented immigrants, but also those with legal immigration status and valid visas, US citizens and tribal citizens. On Tuesday, a group of local law enforcement officers said even their agents were being pulled over, reporting that off-duty police officers of color had been stopped and questioned at gunpoint by the administration’s immigration force.
Trump tests the water to see what he can get away with. He says a big thing to make you panic, then pulls it back a bit so you think “well, at least it’s not the big thing.” And then later he inches it forward again. “I’m gonna take over Panama” (panic) “never mind…. Venezuela!” He’s boiling us slowly like lobsters. If he says it… It’s a plan, and he is already saying there shouldn’t be midterms. Testing the water.
He also can’t do it too far from the midterms and have it fail—because then there could be midterms.
But some form of Martial Law-like action is part of their “Project 2026” and my bet is October.